Men Quotes by John Dryden

Men are but children of a larger growth.

— John Dryden

Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.

— John Dryden

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

— John Dryden

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

— John Dryden

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

— John Dryden

He who trusts a secret to his servant makes his own man his master.

— John Dryden

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

— John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

— John Dryden

The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.

— John Dryden

Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.

— John Dryden

Pleasure never comes sincere to man; but lent by heaven upon hard usury.

— John Dryden

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

— John Dryden

When a man's life is under debate, The judge can ne'er too long deliberate.

— John Dryden

I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble…

— John Dryden

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

— John Dryden

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

— John Dryden

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he…

— John Dryden

For granting we have sinned, and that the offence Of man is made against Omnipotence, Some price that bears proportion must be…

— John Dryden

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and…

— John Dryden

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men…

— John Dryden

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is…

— John Dryden

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

— John Dryden

A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may…

— John Dryden

Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes…

— John Dryden

He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .…

— John Dryden

How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a man appear a fool,…

— John Dryden

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man…

— John Dryden

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws,…

— John Dryden

From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: When nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave…

— John Dryden

When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow…

— John Dryden

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us…

— John Dryden

In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, Ere one…

— John Dryden

Beware of the fury of the patient man.

— John Dryden

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

— John Dryden

The elephant is never won by anger; nor must that man who would reclaim a lion take him by the teeth.

— John Dryden

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

— John Dryden

Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.

— John Dryden

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

— John Dryden

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of…

— John Dryden

Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no…

— John Dryden